skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
in this case we had 1.5 millioon ground truths for our testing purposes. we now have run it over 10 million, but i didnt want to claim it had 0 hallucinations on those as technically we cant say for sure, but considering the hallucination rate was 0% for 1.5 million when compared to ground truths im fairly confident.
Time reviewed a study based on some 256 CEOs here. [1] The average work week ended up at just over 58 hours. Here [2] is a post from Forbes where they surveyed 50 billionaires on how many hours they work per week. For 60% it was at least 60 hours.

Imagine tomorrow - you finally 'made it'. You have $15k/month guaranteed income, forever. It's not like that's a destination, because at that point you need to decide in a point for your life. Relentless hedonism is really awesome for like a year or two, but even that becomes rapidly unfulfilling. So... what now? For some it's work, others go for religion, others just end up playing 'make number go up' with their earnings, and so on. But the point is you need to find something to do with your life. "Comfort" is a false destination, because it's not a destination - once you reach it, you just immediately start going down a new path that can even take you further away from where you were - as in this guy's case.

[1] - https://time.com/4076563/ceos-productivity/

[2] - https://twitter.com/forbes/status/498274992694784000
Debug web apps quickly within Gitlab
It's not for us to decide, the user will say if this resume passed the screening.

We're also exploring additional verification methods, such as sending an email screenshot about passing the screening and going to the next interview step.
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> I swim because I enjoy it, not because I'm trying to get somewhere fast.

I run because I enjoy it, not because I’m trying to get somewhere fast. But I also bike because I enjoy it, not because I’m trying to get somewhere fast.

You seem to assume that because this thing is faster, it must automatically be less enjoyable. That’s not the case for bikes, why should it be the case here? In my opinion it sounds fun, and would probably be enjoyable.
the CEO of the bankruptcy estate sent a letter to the court arguing against this. people are "made whole" in that they will receive the dollar value of the assets on the day of the bankruptcy, but due to rise in cryptocurrency prices since then, a lot of them are still taking a big loss compared to the world without any fraud.
The problem with numbers as they are only as good as the source numbers and questions you ask..

If you don't collect some numbers that skews your data away from the truth. If you collect false numbers (many ways to do that) it also skews your data. If you collect numbers but then exclude them in some way that skews results. Thus the first question needs do be do we even have correct valid numbers to work with. If the source data is wrong in anyway then no amount of statistics can correct for that (statistics can correct for sample bias in some situations, but that is different from completely missing or intentionally wrong data by someone who knows how to fool that correction).

Once we have accurate data, then there are a lot of ways to lie with statistics. Is shoplifting a "serious crime" - different people will have different answers. There are many ways to slice up the data we have and if you want to get any particular result you will slice in many different ways until you find a result you like and then work the questions backward to make it seem like they were correct. I'm sure someone better trained in statistics can come up with other ways to make the data show whatever they want.
Anything could be argued, but I'd hope that the argument would fail in court.
AI and Replit enabled my leap into productive, personal computing
There's less text in this link than the actual article.
I unsubbed because it didn't seem $10 / month helpful to me, to be honest. I subbed for awhile and thought it was magical and a gamechanger and eventually became bored, and it's suggestions simply weren't useful enough. The magic of auto fill disappeared for me and the gimmick was over.

I had a ton of headaches from blindly accepting it's output when I'm in a rush and then later on realizing that it made my code dumber and reduced functionality. There were nuances as to why I was coding things the way that I was, why I used solution C, and not solution A, when A was the most obvious and rote, but broke features.
I think the condo my mom bought might have these. The previous owner was very gung-ho about all of this, and kept telling us how much we're going to love it, do we want the logins, do we want the documentation?

We told him we're almost certainly ripping it all out, because my mother does not need a smart light switch that costs $300 and will eventually go out of business. She needs a switch she can hit with one hand to turn on the kitchen lights.
That is not where Apple's growth has been for quite some time, it's services. And because of that I'll be awaiting the economic rental strategy to come at any moment.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08819
8GB RAM?? what is this, 2005? Seriously, how much would it cost Apple to start its base M4 model with 16GB RAM.
Last time I ordered, and I rarely do, I had to pay a delivery fee and a service fee.

The delivery is the service
How can time series model be pre-trained ? I think I’m missing something.
This is the worst part of the hell that is IoT - dead devices that are just waste.

At least HomeKit saves you a bit from that - my Best Buy switches keep working via HomeKit long after Best Buy gave me gift cards for them and shut down their servers.

But it's all really a crock, so much smart home stuff is just not needed.
What is stopping America from adopting a VAT for retail products, or displaying the final price for items on their tags?
Looks really nice! Anyone know of an equivalence for Intel iGPUs? Would love one for my plex server. I'm currently using intel_gpu_top, but is nowhere near this level of detail, unfortunately.

edit: Just realized it does indeed support Intel as well, according to its github page. Neat! Will give it a go for sure!
Teach it to us! I'm not familiar with this.
it's an ipad...
Not just confuse them, but convince them we're not a threat, and thus not worth exterminating.
Effort to try to write an appendix listing all the UB and IFNDR is an ambition of WG21 but there's no specific timeline.

It's a bit like that "Migrate off obsolete DB server" card that's been sat in your team's (well most teams) backlog for a couple of years. Everybody agrees it should be done... But like not this sprint.

My assessment is that at their current rate WG21 is adding new UB to the language slightly faster than it's being documented for the appendix, so this won't actually finish.
Show HN is for things you've made others can try and that excludes most reading material, including lists. Take a look at

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
I think a big benefit would be reworking code to make a way to safely allow interior units. They wouldn't be nice without natural light but it's a way to make a lot of units available cheaply.
A token already has multiple meanings because words (and part-of-words) can have multiple meanings.
My point is that the conditions at those boundaries are not comparable: Greater Paris is pretty much a whole metropolitan area, which is "non-urban"-ish at the boundaries. If you take a slice out of NYC with the same population/area, then that is still only a part of a (bigger than Greater Paris) metro area of like 20M people...
There are large-effect changes that can be made industry-wide (reducing the carbon intensity of power grids for example) that can be done before we start asking people to change fundamental aspects of their culture like diet.

These efforts targeted at changing individual behavior are distractions from actual things that economies could choose to do centrally to largely fix the problems. There is no reason we need to continue burn coal/gas to generate power, except that we think it is too expensive to make the effort to switch over. For example, Germany choosing to shut down nuclear power plants while there are still fossil power plants on their grid means they don't really believe that climate change is as big a threat to civilization as they say elsewhere.
This wasn't a flippant remark either. Read Henri Bergson Time and Free Will for some thought provoking analysis.
This would be interesting but also feels a little restrictive. Maybe something like LoRa could bridge the capability gap but if a competitor then drops a much more capable model then you either have to ignore it or bring it into your app.

(assuming companies won't easily share all their models for this kind of effort)
The owners of Apple are its millions of shareholders. The people who made the decision to break the law are merely its operators.
This device is buoyant, according to the article
Your blow hole, clearly
Here: http://kruljo.radiostudent.si:8000/
I wasn't familiar with the passage but having read it I think it means that the sounds and sights of the nighttime mail carriage ride made the bank messenger fantasize a run (i.e. an excess of customer withdrawals) upon his bank. The wider context is that the shadows of the night are cast as various phantoms in the minds of the people on the carriage, and even the horse pulling it:

> While he trotted back with the message he was to deliver to the night watchman in his box at the door of Tellson’s Bank, by Temple Bar, who was to deliver it to greater authorities within, the shadows of the night took such shapes to him as arose out of the message, and took such shapes to the mare as arose out of HER private topics of uneasiness. They seemed to be numerous, for she shied at every shadow on the road.

> What time, the mail-coach lumbered, jolted, rattled, and bumped upon its tedious way, with its three fellow-inscrutables inside. To whom, likewise, the shadows of the night revealed themselves, in the forms their dozing eyes and wandering thoughts suggested.

> Tellson’s Bank had a run upon it in the mail. As the bank passenger—with an arm drawn through the leathern strap, which did what lay in it to keep him from pounding against the next passenger, and driving him into his corner, whenever the coach got a special jolt—nodded in his place, with half-shut eyes, the little coach-windows, and the coach-lamp dimly gleaming through them, and the bulky bundle of opposite passenger, became the bank, and did a great stroke of business. The rattle of the harness was the chink of money, and more drafts were honoured in five minutes than even Tellson’s, with all its foreign and home connection, ever paid in thrice the time. Then the strong-rooms underground, at Tellson’s, with such of their valuable stores and secrets as were known to the passenger (and it was not a little that he knew about them), opened before him, and he went in among them with the great keys and the feebly-burning candle, and found them safe, and strong, and sound, and still, just as he had last seen them.

I actually think it's a really neat passage, it invokes the surreal more than I would expect from 19th century prose. Also, this part just before is very vivid and quite funny:

> Except on the crown, which was raggedly bald, he had stiff, black hair, standing jaggedly all over it, and growing down hill almost to his broad, blunt nose. It was so like Smith’s work, so much more like the top of a strongly spiked wall than a head of hair, that the best of players at leap-frog might have declined him, as the most dangerous man in the world to go over.
The primary test for smart home shit for me now, is how does it revert to a dumb device?

If it keeps working when the Internet is down, at least somewhat, maybe it can be considered. Otherwise, nah, ain't nobody got time for that.
Symbolics had its own PC implementation of Lisp: CLOE.

From the Lisp FAQ: "CLOE (Common Lisp Operating Environment) is a cross-development
environment for IBM PCs (MSDOS) and Symbolics Genera. It includes
CLOS, condition error system, generational garbage collection,
incremental compilation, code time/space profiling, and a stack-frame
debugger. It costs from $625 to $4000 and requires 4-8mn RAM and a 386
processor. "

Later they also ported Genera to DEC Alpha. Currently I have access to an implementation which runs on ARM64 and Intel x64.
If you don't have a resume, do you still ask about candidates experience?

Many people can talk a good game and come across well but still be useless (e.g. hard fail on the simplest of white board tests).

I haven't done interviewing (on company's side of table) for a long time, but my main tack was always to go over projects on resume, focusing on last 5 years, and drill down to see if they could fluently talk about them, draw architecture diagrams, justify choices, etc, etc.

I you don't ask about past experience (= same as having resume), then how do you even know what the person's experience consists of? Useless cog, or tech lead? Highly agentic or passive, etc?
This is exactly how I view anarchism. The word itself only says one thing, no leaders. So it's up to us to define a world without leaders.

My definition has always been that we can have laws, we can have rules, we definitely need rules, but everyone must have a chance to understand how they're made, and everyone must have a chance to be part of the process. The only true democracy is anarchy. If we can put a man on the moon and hold elections then surely we can construct a functional anarchist system.

If you're a true anarchist you believe more in rules than anyone else. Rules about littering, about right of way, rules that enforce order. Because without centralized leadership everyone must help enforce the rules.

Which is also why it'll never work in practice of course. It will always remain a dream, it goes against evolution, really. If evolution is throwing dice then it dictates that sooner or later someone will go against the grain. No system is perfect and sooner or later someone will exploit it.

The true nature of human politics is just pure chaos. Dog eat dog, survival of the fittest, or like Pac said; "gimme gimme gimme, everybody back off". It's like a biological survival instinct to hoard wealth and protect ones own against the world.
The real question here is about efficiency, not speed. If this does in fact propel divers more efficiently than traditional fins, it could be something useful in extending dive times without the battery limitations of a sea scooter. Otherwise it's just a gimmick.
Freemium vs. Paid
What is the best option to start subscription plan?
> There are many people who spend more effort creating the illusion of competence on paper and on the job, getting harder to detect the higher they go.

If you can navigate a software engineering position, purely undetected, by bullshitting it, I would say you can be a very good manager. You can probably handle high level concepts without knowing the implementation details.
Well I meant crypto related investments too. But Anthropic might be a big piece of it, so I guess I stand “corrected”
There’s already plenty of electric underwater scooters on the market. This is novel because it’s not electric.
How do I know they won't just give me a cached output from someone else's identical job, or from a simulator? I don't really trust IBM to not mess it up.
If you've got $5 million at 60, you've probably qualified for medicare and a significant social security payment.

With $5 million, it shouldn't be hard to cover your medical expenses for 5 years, and in 2-10 years you'll get regular payments from Social Security.

I'm sure there's some people who would struggle with $5M at 60, but they'd need to have some pretty specific circumstances. It should be clearly enough for most. IMHO, $5M is likely enough for most at any age, but maybe not in an area with high housing costs.
It's slower, more expensive and less accessible than a monofin
AI proponents working hard at getting their machines to pass the Turing test - by defining intelligence down.
Our seed memo to build a change control system and SDK
Hi hn crowd,

founder of opral here. we seem to have stumbled on an easier and better way to build collaborative apps by leveraging "version control as a backend":

- collaboration for file-based software (a real-time layer can be added)

- data ownership for users and companies because file-based (no lock-in)

- open source like pull request collaboration for design, engineering & co

feedback and questions are welcome. directly commenting on the google doc is enabled
Flip turns would be clumsy at best.
You seem to be fundamentally misunderstanding how the zstd dictionary works. It’s a dictionary at the statistical level. Your `record Point(int x, int y)` RPC would statistically at the bit level have to look like no other message for it to have no help. That seems unlikely since there’s all sorts of framing. And I question the mindset of ad-hoc compression schemes that are trying to shrink the long tail of “sent only once” messages.

zstd’s approach is fundamentally very different from a basic interning dictionary. Seriously, there’s been tons of research on this. It’s also interesting that Fury claims to be 0-copy and then does all these ad-hoc field compression which is the literal definition of not 0-copy (& yes, varint encoding is not 0-copy and neither is this custom string compression).

Anyway, unless you actually do a proper comparison against zstd with a trained dictionary against a representative corpus, we’re just going in circles with me saying “you need to evaluate your ad-hoc compression against zstd” and you trying to argue from first principles that the custom compression scheme wins.
For me it was my mum turning on the vacuum cleaner would cause a spike that could reboot the Spectrum 48K. The 128 model had a better power supply as I remember. Also the ZX81 I had before that (think I was 8 at the time) was extremely sensitive to the state of the current in the house...
Third paragraph of the introduction of the mentioned paper[1] in the first paragraph of the repo.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.10688
Is a Monocycle something different to a Unicycle?
Depends on why they're made whole. If it turns out that he didn't steal so much as it seemed at trial, that could matter. But as the article details, it seems to be more about two exogenous things:

* Some FTX investments, in particular Anthropic, have done very well over the past 2 years.

* Due to the mechanics of bankruptcy law, FTX's cryptocurrency liabilities were effectively converted to dollar liabilities when they filed, meaning that all crypto price increases since then are free money for the asset recovery. (You could reasonably frame this as bankruptcy victims not really being made whole, since their claims are substantially less than what FTX would owe them if it were still running, although there's good reasons it works this way.)
First reaction: Seth needs to spent more time reading through the paragraphs of drivel that recipe web sites put in front of the content that matters.
The Anthropic stake alone is worth several billions
Wayland and X (2013) [pdf]
Startups don’t employ the majority of engineers. Windows would still dominate.

Edit: I can’t read. Disregard.
Americans have more ambition than Europeans, says CEO of Norway's $1.6T fund
That they enjoy walking? That they're engaging in civil disobedience to protest car centric road design?
> But that doesn’t exist in the web components world (at least not yet). When you use <my-button> in a React component, you don’t have to explicitly import my-button from anywhere inside that file.

Technically you can just export a string with the name of your web component:

export const MyButton = 'my-button'

import MyButton from './MyButton'
...
return <MyButton />

But you do have to make sure there is no name clash. And since this is more of a convention any web components libs you pick up will probably not do this.
"Do you feel fulfilled?"
BBC Research and Development
Two propellers spin in different directions might solve it I guess
Can you explain the "substantial expense" required to convert an office parking garage to a residential parking garage?

Typically, office building parking ratio is currently around 4 spots per 1,000 square feet (1). With two people sharing a 750 sqft 1BR apartment, there should be 50% extra parking spaces.

(1) https://www.commercialrealestate.loans/commercial-real-estat...
I've never seen a high-rise office elevator bank smaller than a residential one.

Dishwashers are negligible; microwaves are a souped-up gaming PC and run a lot less; ovens and dryers are more of a concern, but as with HVAC, I'd like proof that an office's draw (with all its attendant equipment) is more than the what you'd have with a dozen (tops) condos. Plumbing and sewer are the only legitimate concerns I've seen yet. And yet: will, way.

>you'd still want to run the numbers to see if it's still cheaper to demolish and build again

These numbers never include externalities like the carbon and refuse footprint of demolishing and rebuilding. How many million metric tons of steel and concrete do we need to dispose of if this becomes a de-facto national policy?
The team is way bigger than 6 people.
Pseudocode:

if “$TERM_PROGRAM” != “”; then
# think diff’rnt
else
# tron leotards
end
Yep. Many long-time Lowes employees will remember specific GENESIS screens to drop into by their numeric shortcuts and whip through the system.

While they've modernized a front-end to GENESIS (see their current POS deployment), there's still an option to dump the system back into a TUI for advanced features (the Alt+F12 option).

https://i.redd.it/to1k7tbsq9b51.jpg
The C++ Allocator concept has no reallocate() function, which would also have to change in order to actually see a speedup:

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/named_req/Allocator

But regardless, realloc() can't be used to implement the optimisation efficiently because of this line from the C man page:

> The realloc() function returns a pointer to the newly allocated memory, which is suitably aligned for any kind of variable *and may be different from ptr*

Basically, if the implementation can't extend the memory allocation it can fallback to malloc(), memcpy() and free() - so by the time C++ gets control back, it's too late to call the appropriate C++ functions.
Financial Advice to Younger Me (2023)
I would suggest going all-in on SQLite and even encrypting it on disk: https://sqlite.org/com/see.html

An encrypted DB will be a differentiator compared to every other offline editor (Joplin et al). It would also appeal to privacy-conscious enterprise users whose laptops may get automatically backed up.

You can support a timed export to text files for those other use-cases.
Suburban backlash threatens country's biggest transit systems
Seems like the classic form of this contest would be for the radio DJ to pull a bill out of his wallet and read that serial number over the air...
How about editing the answers to become gibberish and then link to somewhere else where the answer actually is, perhaps with some captcha?
There are scans of these old magazines at archive.org
Doctors don't have to organise themselves in a way that results in them providing cheap and effective healthcare services - they just need to monopolise enough so that nobody dares to go to somebody who isn't a real doctor. You mentioned prescribing new drugs - monopolising prescriptions alone is a huge reason to go to a real doctor. Think you know more? It doesn't matter if you do!

Just the way things are. There's a reason firemen are more popular than doctors.
Oops, thanks. I guess Marx was being referenced? I had thought Marx was English but apparently he was German-Jewish[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marx
Throwing my recommendation for ProcessWire CMS. I switched to it 10 years ago and made a YouTube series around that time that compares it to WordPress. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOrdUWNK38ibz8U_5Vq4z...